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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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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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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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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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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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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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