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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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Any place that we love becomes our world.

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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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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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