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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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

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