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Edith Sitwell

"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."

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"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."
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"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
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"Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since."
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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
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"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
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"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
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"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
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"Poetry is the deification of reality."
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