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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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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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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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