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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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