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"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
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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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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
Life

"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
Being

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
Time

"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
Money

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."
Desire

"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."
Perception

"Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?"
Solitude

"Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats."
Nature

"The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches."
Thought
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