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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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

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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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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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