"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."
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"A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live."
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"Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling."
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"Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."
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"Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less."
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"Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons."
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"The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."
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"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity."
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"Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
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"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."
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"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
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"The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity."
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."
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"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
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"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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