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| Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. |
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| Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. |
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| As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. |
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| As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. |
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| As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. |
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| As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them |
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| As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid. |
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| As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. |
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| As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. |
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| As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection. |
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| As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. |
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| At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. |
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| Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected. |
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| Bad artists always admire each others work. |
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| Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich, |
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| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. |
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