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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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