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Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.

— Frank Harris

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Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.

"Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," [Wilde] said laughing, "so education is the curse of the acting classes."

Oscar Wilde (1916)

Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.

Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932)

Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!

A. I. Tobin and Elmer Gertz Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931)

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

George Jean Nathan The World of George Jean Nathan (1952)

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki Reginald (1904)

Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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