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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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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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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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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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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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