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"He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?"
"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact."
"I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."
"I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere."
"More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else."
"Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler."
"Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us."
"There is nothing that art cannot express."
"Even things that are true can be proved."
"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
"The only real people are the people who never existed."
"I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different."
"A kiss may ruin a human life"
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."
"When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself."
"I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible."
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
"He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone."
"It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
"Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you."