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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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