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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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