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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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The obscurest epoch is today.

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Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

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The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

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I couldn't help being a part of my race. A race that continued to be tough. It was possible for me to accept myself, finally, only when I realized-emotionally-that poetry is tough too, that a poem can contain as much fury and power as a fist or a blackjack.

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Being a foreigner is not a disease.

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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

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