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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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