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"It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it."
"There's no sin but stupidity."
"Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London."
"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
"Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them."
"The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
"Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes"
"This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go."
"The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ"
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
"And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze."
"No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out."
"Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob."
"Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance"
"Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree."
"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."
"I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."