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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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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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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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