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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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