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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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