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

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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