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Quotes by Dramatist
"Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude."
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"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
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"HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos."
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
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"She shall scant show well that now shows best."
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."
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"As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
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"Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy father's lifeNow wears his crown."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
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"Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air."
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