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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."
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"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Genius

"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work

"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
People

"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
Thought

"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Learning

"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
People

"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
Literature

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Language
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