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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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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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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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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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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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All art is quite useless.

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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