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Arnold Bennett Quotes

«It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable»
«A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.»
«Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.»
«Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity»
Author: Arnold Bennett | About: Money | Keywords: amusing, ingenuity, profitable, vastly
«Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment»
«The price of justice is eternal publicity»
Author: Arnold Bennett | About: Advertising, Justice | Keywords: publicity
«The moment you're born you're done for.»
Author: Arnold Bennett | About: Birth | Keywords: done for
«It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public»
«Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.»
«The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.»

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