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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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Most people are other people.

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

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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