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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, on...more

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She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are pe...more

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I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been y...more

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Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the sec...more

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The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. Yo...more

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People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are ch...more

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Life has always poppies in her hands.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curi...more

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgott...more

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The greatest events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flo...more