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To define is to limit.

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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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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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

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

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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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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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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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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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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