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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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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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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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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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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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