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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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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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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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