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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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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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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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