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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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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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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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