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"To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead."
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"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."

"Reality is what people who lack vision see."

"Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking."

"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

"You can't go home again — it’s not necessarily that places change, but that people do."

"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."

"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
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"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."

"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."

"Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?"
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