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" Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. "

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" Those whom the gods love grow young. "

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

" Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. "

" Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. "

" There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. "

" How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. "

" There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. "

" Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. "

" Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. "

" America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. "

" Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. "

Beautiful Things

" Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "

" Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. "

" In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. "

" Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "

" Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. "

" Charity creates a multitude of sins. "

" The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. "

" Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. "

" Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. "

" It is always the unreadable that occurs. "

" There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "

" 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. "

" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "

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

" The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "

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

" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "