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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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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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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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Art should never be popular.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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