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Quotes by Dramatist
"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
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"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."
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"Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2."
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"A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom."
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"The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
Men,
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"The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write."
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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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"Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
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"Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."
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"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."
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"People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
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"To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!"
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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked."
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"Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are crumbs... and gherkins... It's disgusting!"
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"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
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"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
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"I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."
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"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
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"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
God,
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"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending."
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"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."
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"The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them."
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