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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.