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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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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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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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