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Quotes by Dramatist
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
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"Only one who loves can remember so well."
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"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience."
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"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
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"I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them."
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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
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"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
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"And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation."
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"With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there."
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"To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit."
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"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it."
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"Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex."
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"Fit to govern? No, not fit to live."
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"Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy."
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"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."
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"The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well."
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"I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five."
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"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development."
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"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
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"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
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"Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary."
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"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."
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"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."
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"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."
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"All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to."
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"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."
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"Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell."
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