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"I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated."
"And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth."
"It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected."
"I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood."
"...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison."
"I'm not nearly young enough to know everything"
"The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't."
"No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything."
"The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!"
"I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual."
"I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life."
"In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other."
"Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid."
"Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before."
"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even."
"No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself"
"You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is."
"I was wrong. God's law is only Love."
"But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it."
"Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do."