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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

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