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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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History is only gossip.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

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