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"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
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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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"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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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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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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"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
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"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
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"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
Being

"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
Experience

"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
Self-Worth

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
Education

"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
Self-Worth

"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
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