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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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