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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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America is not a country, it is a world.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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