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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."

"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."

"The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag."

"I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference."

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."

"Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
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