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[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...more

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows ...more

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. Yo...more