"When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound."
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"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."
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"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."
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"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."
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"The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out."
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"What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals."
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"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."
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"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."
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"One should always be in love."
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"You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing."
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"Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life"
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"Nothing worth knowing can be taught."
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"Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous."
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
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"The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me."
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"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die."
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