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" Youth is a period of missed opportunities. "

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" Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. "

" Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. "

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

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

" The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. "

" It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. "

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

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

" Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. "

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

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

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

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" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

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

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

" No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. "

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

" Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. "

" The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. "

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

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

" When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. "

" Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. "

" It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. "

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

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

" 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. "