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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Only a very kind woman is capable of doing something very dumb.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.