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- Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
- The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
- The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in…
- In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
- The secret of life is in art.
- Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
- To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
- Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
- At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
- The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
- We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,…
- He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least…
- All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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