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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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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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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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