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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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