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Theodore Dreiser Quotes: Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
         

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.


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Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.



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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.



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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.



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