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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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