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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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