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" I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. "

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" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "

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

" There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. "

" One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. "

" It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. "

" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "

" There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. "

" The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. "

" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "

" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "

" The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. "

" Alas, I am dying beyond my means. "

" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

" A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. "

" One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. "

" 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. "

" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "

" True friends stab you in the front. "

" In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. "

" It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. "

" There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. "

" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "