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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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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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"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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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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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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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
Saying
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
Luck
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Time
"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
Change
"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes."
Love
"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
Love
"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."
Morality
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
Comfort
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
Art
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
Art
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