"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde, Oscar on fantasy
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"We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology."

Freud, Sigmund on girls
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"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."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion   

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on girls   

"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes."

Wilde, Oscar on husbands
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"Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone."

Wilde, Oscar on ignorance
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"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes."

Wilde, Oscar on invention and inventor
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Camus, Albert on rebellion
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

Camus, Albert on punishment   

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

Camus, Albert on production
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"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."

Camus, Albert on production   

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on potential
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

Camus, Albert on sin
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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

Camus, Albert on beauty
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"Integrity has no need of rules."

Camus, Albert on character
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"Action is the antidote to despair."

Baez, Joan on despair
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"Despair gives courage to a coward."

Fuller, Thomas on despair
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"Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."

Grass, Gunther on despair
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

May, Rollo on despair
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"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

Camus, Albert on philosophers and philosophy
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"It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it."

Camus, Albert on nationalities and nationalism
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"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."

Camus, Albert on life
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"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be."

Dryden, John on anxiety
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

Seneca on anxiety
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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

Seneca on anxiety
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"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

Anderson, Greg on happiness
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

Ballou, Hosea on happiness
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