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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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History is only gossip.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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