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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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