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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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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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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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