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" This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. "

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" There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. "

" Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. "

" Fame is the thirst of youth. "

" Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. "

" Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. "

" A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. "

" It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it. "

" Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. "

" The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. "

" It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. "

" One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. "

" Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. "

" He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? "

" Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. "

" Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. "

" Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. "

" A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. "

" Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. "

" For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. "

" In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. "

" I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. "

" Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. "

" Adversity is the first path to truth. "

" Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. "

" Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. "

" I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. "

" Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. "