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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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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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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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