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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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