Gossip is charming History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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How sad it is I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old For this--for this--I would give everything Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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Each man kills the thing he loves.
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