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/ page 68 of 1205 /Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
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