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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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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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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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There's no sin but stupidity.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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