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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
[ Intuition ]
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A yawn is a silent shout.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
[ Slang ]
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
[ Temperament ]
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
[ Chastity ]
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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
[ Courage ]
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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
[ Adversity ]
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
[ Good and Evil ]
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
[ Experience ]
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
[ Reality ]
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
[ Happiness ]
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
[ Conflict ]
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
[ Committees and Meetings ]
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
[ Pride ]
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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
[ Wealth ]
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
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New roads; new ruts.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
[ Youth ]
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
[ Knowledge ]
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
[ Hatred ]
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
[ Silence ]
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
[ Cosmos ]
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
[ Gold ]
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
[ Innocence ]
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
[ Terrorism ]
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
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