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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Music is the perfect type of art.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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

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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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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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