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Quotes by Dramatist
"Make me a willow cabin at your gateAnd call upon my soul within the house;Write loyal cantons of contemned loveAnd sing them loud even in the dead of night;Hallo your name to the reverberate hillsAnd make the babbling gossip of the airCry out "Olivia!" O, you should not restBetween the elements of air and earthBut you should pity me."
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"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
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"Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
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"You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal."
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"Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it."
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"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
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"True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know."
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"What's done, is done."
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"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!"
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"Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don't know who I am, why I'm alive, what I want. And I now think that love is nonsense, that embraces are cloying, that there's no sense in work, that song and passionate speeches are vulgar and outmoded. And everywhere I take with me depression, chill boredom, dissatisfaction, revulsion from life... I am destroyed, irretrievably!"
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"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."
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"To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!"
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"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
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"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."
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"My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about."
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"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."
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"The greatest events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow out in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us."
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"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
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"Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong."
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"He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him."
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