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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's fr...more

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

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One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you ...more

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at l...more

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Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins