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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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