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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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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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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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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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