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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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The heart was made to be broken.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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