"Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes."
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"You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages."
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"And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
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"All bad art is the result of good intentions."
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"The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe."
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"I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel"
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"Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox."
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"All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?"
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"Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)"
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"Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!"
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"She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust."
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"The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me"
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"To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him."
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"Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper."
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"The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value."
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"But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory."
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"He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him."
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"Divorces are made in heaven."
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"The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable."
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"Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood."
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