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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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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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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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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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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.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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