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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.