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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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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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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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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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