"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
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"It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!"
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"With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
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"The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions."
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"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
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"The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development."
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"How does one cure the soul? Through the senses"
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"Most people are other people."
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"Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art."
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"To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
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"Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
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"Time is a waste of money."
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"Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all."
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"The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
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"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are."
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"The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone."
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"The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me"
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"Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best."
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"Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars."
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"There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion."
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