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A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

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Slavery and Infamy are the merited chastisements of Success.

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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

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The extreme oddness of Existence is what reconciles me to it.

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How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

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It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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There is a toad in every social dish, however well they cook it.

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An evil name — a drawback at first — sheds lustre on old age.

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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

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I like my universe as immense as possible, grim, pitiless and icy.

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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

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All mirrors are magical mirrors; never can we see our faces in them.

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Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

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Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out.

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An act of folly isn't foolish, when you know it for the folly it is.

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If we disregard what the world says of someone, we live to repent it.

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What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

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We should nourish our Souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

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It is the misery of young people that they have to read one another's books.

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Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn.

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