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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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History is merely gossip

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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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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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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