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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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Don't use big words. They mean so little.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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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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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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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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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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