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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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