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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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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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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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