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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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I never change, except in my affections.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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