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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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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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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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And if it feels good... Feel it!

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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