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

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

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Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But tha...more

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful t...more

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What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is ...more