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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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All art is quite useless.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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