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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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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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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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