"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely."

Criticism, Truth, Fashion, Humanity

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"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

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"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."

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"Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism."

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"The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people."

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"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"

Justice

"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."

Reality

"A wise man is not afraid to face the truth."

Wisdom

"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

Regret

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

Philosophy

"You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just."

Courage

"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."

Doubt

"Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past..."

Reflection

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

Emotion

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

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