“Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.”
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
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“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
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“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
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“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”
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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
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“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
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“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
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“People who ask for your criticism want only praise.”
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“You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.”
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“Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
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“No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.”
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“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”
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“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.”
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“It’s very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”
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“The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.”
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“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
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“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.”
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“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
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“Tolerance is only another name for indifference.”
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