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- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
- There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
- All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
- 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…
- Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
- The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
- Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the…
- 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…
- London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
- 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.
- A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
- The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
- The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every…
- As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely…
- One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,…
- One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
- Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time…
- For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
- 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's only real life is the life one never leads.
- One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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