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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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One should always be in love.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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