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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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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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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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