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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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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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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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