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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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