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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"Poetry is the deification of reality."
Poetry
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
Taste
"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
Discipline
"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."
Truth
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
Truth
"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
People
"Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since."
Comfort
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Music
"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."
Life
"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself."
Time
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