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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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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 they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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