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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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