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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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