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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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In married life three is company and two none.

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One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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