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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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