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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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