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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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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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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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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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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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