"The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide."
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
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"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope."
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"When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else."
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"Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact."
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"What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons."
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"I never change, except in my affections."
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"It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one."
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"Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing."
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"If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated."
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"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize"
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"Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."
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"It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions."
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"The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art."
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"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful"
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"I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over."
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"When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."
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"Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One"
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"Create yourself. Be yourself your poem."
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"Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it."
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