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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Art

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

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Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

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Authority is quite degrading

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Punctuality is the thief of time.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

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There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it, from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language

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Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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