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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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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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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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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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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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