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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development

"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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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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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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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."
Money

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
Art

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
Society

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Fear

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
Painting

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
Beauty

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
Nothing

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
Difference

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
Success

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
Difference
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