"Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life."
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"The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts."
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"The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died."
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"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
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"The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
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"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg"
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"A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
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"And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws."
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"Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people."
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"I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says."
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"If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."
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"And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand."
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"The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it."
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"Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce."
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"A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol."
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"How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
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"Art, like Nature, has her monsters"
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