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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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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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