"The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin."
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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
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"Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring."
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"Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive"
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"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
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"A mask tells us more than a face."
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"There is no sin except stupidity."
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"Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry."
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"Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there."
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"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions."
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"An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different."
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"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."
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"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
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"Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain."
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"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation."
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