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I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to ...more

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Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, th...more

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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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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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

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No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpa...more

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what ...more

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[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...more

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.