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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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