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He watched it with that stran...

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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Yes, I am a thorough republic...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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A work of art is the unique r...

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh!...

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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Great passions are for the gr...

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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There are three kinds of desp...

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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Ideals are dangerous things. ...

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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Any place you love is the wor...

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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George Moore leads his reader...

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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In all unimportant matters, s...

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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I envy you going to Oxford: i...

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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I am quite incapable of under...

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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The poet is the supreme artis...

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

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My sweet rose, my delicate fl...

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

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Art creates an incomparable a...

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

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Sin is the only real colour e...

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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Fruitcake is like semen, ther...

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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Caricature is the tribute whi...

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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I have never admitted that I ...

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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An artist should create beaut...

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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