"I must remember that a good friend is a new world."
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"For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."
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"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
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"sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it"
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"I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing."
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"Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."
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"I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
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"When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her."
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"All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns."
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"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow."
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"One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers."
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"Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy."
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"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
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"All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised."
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"Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much."
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
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"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie."
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"Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday."
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."
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