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" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. "
Oscar Wilde
Way
Temptation
Only
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" It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. "
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" Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. "
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" It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "
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" I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. "
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" The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. "
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" In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. "
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" Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. "
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" Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. "
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" There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. "
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Others
Up
" Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. "
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Anybody
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" London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. "
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London
Know
" I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. "
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Satisfied
I Am
" The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. "
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Educate
Critic
" A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. "
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Man
Thing
" Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. "
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Sometimes
Never
" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "
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Two
Evils
" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "
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Romance
To Love
" In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. "
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Curves
Beautiful
" It is always the unreadable that occurs. "
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Always
Occurs
" If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. "
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My Life
Romantic
" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "
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Same
Society
" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "
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Ethics
Moral
Rich
" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "
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Work
Unique
" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "
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Except
Genius
" All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. "
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" I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. "
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" There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "
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