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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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