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The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of w...more

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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. Yo...more

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People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are ch...more

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.""I hate th...more

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or s...more

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Life has always poppies in her hands.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. Bu...more

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curi...more

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgott...more

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And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.