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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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