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"The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life."
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"Where bad's the best bad must be the choice."
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"When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute."
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"I'd rather live a life I truly love by spending my time doing things I love and have that be my only life rather than devote myself to someone who can't be proven exists at all that wants our time and our love more than our virtues simply just so I can live again."
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"The past is a foreign country they do things differently there."
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"It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree."
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"You lose yourself in books. You find your self there too."
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"If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape."
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"Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it."
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"How grand is victory but how dear!"
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
Art
"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Life
"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Society
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Help
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
Work
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
Philosophy
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Force
"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
Society
"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
Art
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