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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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