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"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"A fool and her money are soon courted."
Money
"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued."
Practice
"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it."
Marriage
"It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others."
Man
"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him."
Imagination
"Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself."
Art
"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
Beauty
"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."
Home
"A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest."
Love
"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."
Relationship
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