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All art is quite useless.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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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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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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