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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
