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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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