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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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