Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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