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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

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