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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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