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" The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. "

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" Youth is a period of missed opportunities. "

" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "

" For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? "

" The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. "

" Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. "

" Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. "

" In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. "

" As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. "

" Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. "

" No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. "

" Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. "

" Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. "

" We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. "

" There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. "

" There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. "

" No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. "

" A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. "

" The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. "

" All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. "

" A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. "

" The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. "

" Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. "

" The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. "

" Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. "

" Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. "

" Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. "

" The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. "

" Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. "