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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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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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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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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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