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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,…
- 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…
- Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
- I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with…
- In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in…
- Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation…
- It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the…
- The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one…
- Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
- [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely…
- Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
- Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had…
- Women are made to be loved, not understood.
- The heart was made to be broken.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
- The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
- A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless…
- Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of…
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
- I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is…
- I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
- The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
- Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
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