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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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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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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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