Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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