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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.