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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beau...more

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful th...more

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all se...more

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...more

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Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what on...more

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be g...more

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Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing ...more

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...more