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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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