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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Art should never be popular.

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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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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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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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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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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