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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Pata...  
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.  
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anyth...  
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.  
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unber...  
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.  
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.  
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see th...  
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of cons...  
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on ...  
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.  
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.  
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.  
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're import...  
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is...  
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.  
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with j...   Nature
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.  
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength o...  
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity th...  
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.  
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in g...  
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, a...  
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, an...  
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-f...  
We can only learn to love by loving.  
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until...