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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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