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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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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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