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












Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were n...
"There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent
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". . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their app...
"My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.
"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love wil...
"I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,
"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
"Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life...