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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Music is the perfect type of art.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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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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Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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