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We become lovers when we see ...

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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Like two doomed ships that pa...

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Most of our modern portrait p...

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Ah, on what little things doe...

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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I am afraid that woman apprec...

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.

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Indeed, so far from being hum...

Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

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...The two great turning-poin...

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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Only mediocrities progress. A...

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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To give an accurate descripti...

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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Women are a decorative sex. T...

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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I am but too conscious of the...

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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You shut out from your societ...

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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I can stand brute force, but ...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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And, by the way, one of the m...

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.

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Genius lasts longer than Beau...

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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The happiness of a married ma...

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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A man whose desire is to be s...

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

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No art ever survived censorsh...

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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Temperament is the primary re...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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Though of all poses a moral p...

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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