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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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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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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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