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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Time is a waste of money.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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