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

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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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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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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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'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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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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