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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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Life is too short to learn German

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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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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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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