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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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