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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
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"If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married."

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."

"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."

"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."
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