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"A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul."
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"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."
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"They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel."
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"I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."
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"Your faces are very beautiful,but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire."
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"I scream out the ropes of words that bound my tongue, and the heavens echo back...'I love you'."
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"Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person...."
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"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
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"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."
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"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
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"Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men."
Ethics
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
Experience
"There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain."
Truth
"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."
Gender
"I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life."
Parenting
"We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
Isolation
"Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls."
Gender
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
Money
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