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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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