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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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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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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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

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

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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