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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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