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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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