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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

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I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

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Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But tha...more

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is ...more

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His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

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It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, ...more