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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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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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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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