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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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