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" Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. "

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" Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. "

" The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. "

" Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. "

" There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line. "

" Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. "

" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "

" The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. "

" History develops, art stands still. "

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. "

" We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. "

" I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. "

" One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. "

" Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. "

" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "

" America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. "

" We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. "

" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

" The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. "

" Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. "

" We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. "

" For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. "

" Nonsense and beauty have close connections. "

" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "

" One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. "

" The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. "

" Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. "