"What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
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"It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting"
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"It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest."
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"I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself."
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"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives."
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"The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer."
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"The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful."
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"We women adore failures. They lean on us."
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"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
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"I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain."
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"In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them."
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"He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage."
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"this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night"
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"I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience."
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"He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both."
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"Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something."
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"Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure."
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"I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her."
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"Fantastic shadows of birds"
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"If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that."
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