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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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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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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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