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• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the…
• By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
• Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how…
• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some…
• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
• Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
• Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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