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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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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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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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The heart was made to be broken.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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