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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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