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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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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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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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In fact, I am never wrong.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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