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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Time is a waste of money.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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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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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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