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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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