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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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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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True friends stab you in the front.

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He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.

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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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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 intellects. A man cannot be too careful...more

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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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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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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

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Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.