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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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