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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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Personal Development
"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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"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."
History
"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
Love
"Books are a finer world within the world."
Books
"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
Death
"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."
Care
"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."
Being
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
Honesty
"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."
Character
"Everything is sweetened by risk."
Risk
"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
Happiness
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