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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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