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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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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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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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