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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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