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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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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. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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