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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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