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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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The sky was pure opal now.
Oscar Wilde
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
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Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.
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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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Genius is born-not paid.
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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
Oscar Wilde