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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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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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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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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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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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