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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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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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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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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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