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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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Nature is always behind the age

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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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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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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