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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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