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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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Life is too short to learn German

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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