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/ page 595 of 1205 /I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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True friends stab you in the front. Friendship
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the explanation of the value of limitations in art. The sculptor gladly surrenders imitative colour, and the painter the actual dimensions of form, because by such renunciations they are able to avoid too definite a presentation of the Real, which would be mere imitation, and too definite a realisation of the Ideal, which would be too purely intellectual. It is through its very incompleteness that art becomes complete in beauty, and so addresses itself, not to the faculty of recognition nor to the faculty of reason, but to the aesthetic sense alone, which, while accepting both reason and recognition as stages of apprehension, subordinates them both to a pure synthetic impression of the work of art as a whole, and, taking whatever alien emotional elements the work may possess, uses their very complexity as a means by which a richer unity may be added to the ultimate impression itself.
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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the une...
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Forgiveness
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. Technology
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Forgiveness
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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