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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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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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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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