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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"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

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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Personal Development

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love

"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty

"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"
Nature

"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature

"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
Reading

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry

"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work

"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
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