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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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