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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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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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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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