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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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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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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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