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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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