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" A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. "
Work
Critic
Art
" A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. "
Dreamer
Find
Rest
" A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. "
Feelings
Who
Never
" Alas, I am dying beyond my means. "
Beyond
Dying
Means
" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
Great
Dangerous
Sincerity
" 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. "
New
Diversity
Work
" All art is quite useless. "
Quite
Art
Useless
" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
Poetry
Bad
Feeling
" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "
Women
Tragedy
Mothers
" Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. "
Forgiveness
Always
Nothing
" A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. "
Long
Love
Man
" A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
His
Man
Careful
" A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. "
Work
Woman
Man
" A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. "
Himself
Man
Think
" Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. "
Ambition
Which
Growth
" Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. "
Refuge
Failure
Last
" America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "
Before
Columbus
Up
" America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. "
America
Without
Country
" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "
Friendship
Him
Man
" An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. "
Dangerous
Idea
Unworthy
" Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. "
Temptations
Anybody
Good
" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
Poet
Survive
Poetry
" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "
Good
Same
Society
" Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. "
Convincing
Always
Vulgar
" Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. "
Individualism
Art
Disturbing
" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "
Most
World
Intense
" Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. "
Doing
Art
Desire
" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "
Should
Art
Never
" As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. "
Woman
She
Long
" As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. "
War
Always
Long
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