"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
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"Everything popular is wrong."
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"Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old."
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"To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others."
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"I'm too old to know everything"
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"The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her."
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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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"The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial."
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist."
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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
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"Every impulse we strangle will only poison us."
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"My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world."
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"There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only."
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"She lives the poetry she cannot write."
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"She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."
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"every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."
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"Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art."
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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
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