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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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America is not a country, it is a world.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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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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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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