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" Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. "

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Beautiful Things

" A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. "

" You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. "

" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "

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" I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. "

" When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. "

" An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. "

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" Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. "

" If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "

" Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. "