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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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