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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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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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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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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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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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