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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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