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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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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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