"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
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"Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written."
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"Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates."
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"Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne"
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"Experience is a question of instinct about life."
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"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go."
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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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"The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."
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"Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself."
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"Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal."
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"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
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"Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling."
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"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not."
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"In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'"
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"Authority is quite degrading."
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"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization."
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"Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'"
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"The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."
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"Some things are more precious because they don't last long."
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