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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reaso...more

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful...more

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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistic...more

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

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That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us qu...more

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If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.