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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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History is only gossip.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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