If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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The heart was made to be broken.
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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 ...
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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...
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it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.
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A kiss may ruin a human life
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a wa...
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It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always ...
