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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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