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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

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