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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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Life is too short to learn German

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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