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- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
- Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
- Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
- He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
- The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
- A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other…
- All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
- I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by…
- Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
- Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
- All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
- 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…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
- Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
- I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
- His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
- In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
- I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
- Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;…
- One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle