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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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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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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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