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"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
Beauty

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
Travel

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."
People

"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
Hell

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
Age

"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
Past

"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions."
Life

"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly."
Development

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
Obvious

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
Soul
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