It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.Oscar Wilde
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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded. . . . He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance.
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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
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