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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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