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"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
History
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
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"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
Motivation
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
Life
"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
Creativity
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Deep experience is never peaceful."
Experience
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
Criticism
"He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures."
Duty
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