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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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

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People are either charming or tedious.

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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