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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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