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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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