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Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.
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Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.
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My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.
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My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.
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An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
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A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.
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Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

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No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?
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You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
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God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!
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There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
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On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
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Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.
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All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....
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To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
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I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.
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Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
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One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.
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It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
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If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.
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Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
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This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.
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This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
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Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
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I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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