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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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

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So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew...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

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as th...more

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had...more

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.