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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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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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Education is an admirable thing.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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