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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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