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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

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I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

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I am certainly an ought and not a must.

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How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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

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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

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History develops, art stands still.

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

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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

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

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

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