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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart."

"Man can only use money to buy man-made goods."

"You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality."

"Not everything that is seen is visible."

"When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time."

"No one escape death!"

"He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker."

"I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life."

"The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

"Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom."

"It is so easy to convince others, it is so difficult to convince oneself."

"Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.""I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray."

"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
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