What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

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There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton in Vesalius in Zante
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

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