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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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