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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
"The heart was made to be broken.
"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what ...
"[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 ...
"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 ...
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
"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...
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
"If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to h...
"Who, being loved, is poor?
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.