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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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

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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

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It is what we fear that happens to us.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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I walk the world in wonder.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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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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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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