"A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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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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"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
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"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
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"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
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"A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude."
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"The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."
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"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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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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"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
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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"
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"One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
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"Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold."
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"And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart"
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"I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky."
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"And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine."
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"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
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"The only thing I cannot resist is temptation."
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