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Vote:   | A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. |
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Vote: | Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. |
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Vote: | For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. |
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Vote: | I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. |
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Vote: | I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. |
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Vote: | It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. |
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Vote: | It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. |
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Vote: | It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. |
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Vote: | It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. |
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Vote: | Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. |
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Vote: | Music is only love looking for words. |
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Vote: | Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. |
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Vote: | No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. |
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Vote: | Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. |
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Vote: | Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. |
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Vote: | Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. |
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Vote: | The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. |
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Vote: | The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. |
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Vote: | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. |
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Vote: | They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well. |
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Vote: | Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. |
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Vote: | Truth disappears with the telling of it. |