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“Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.”

Oscar Wilde

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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting…

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

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“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an…

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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to…

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