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" Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. "

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" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "

" I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. "

" I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. "

" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "

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

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

" Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. "

" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "

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

" Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. "

" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. "

" Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. "

" 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. "

" In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. "

" 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. "

" I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. "

" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "

" No man is rich enough to buy back his past. "

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

" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "

" Women are made to be loved, not understood. "

" Who, being loved, is poor? "

" If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. "

" 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. "

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

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