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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

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Youth condemns; maturity condones.

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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

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Let the key guns be mounted, make a brave show of waging war, and pry off the lid of Pandora's Box once more.

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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.

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