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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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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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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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