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"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."
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"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
Art
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
Luck
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
Love
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
Future
"The cry of equality pulls everyone down."
Equality
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
Emotional
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
Philosophy
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
Happiness
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"
Man
"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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