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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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The secret of life is in art.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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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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