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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...more

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

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Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

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Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It ...more

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

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Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them...more

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and en...more

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.