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If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if ...more

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Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had...more

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Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

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Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choos...more

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Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.