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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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