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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. It can be poisoned or made perfect. There’s a soul in each of us. I know it.”

“But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.”

“To become a spectator of one’s life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“There’s a fatality about good resolutions - they are always made too late.”

“For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness. But he would not sin. The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.”

“If this girl can give soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, is she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, of all the adoration in the world.”

“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.”

“The reason we like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of promise is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with the possession f those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.”

“Unselfish people are colorless. They lack individuality.”