After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
In art good intentions are not of the smallest value. All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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All thoughts are immoral. Their true essence lies in destruction. Think of something and you kill it. Nothing survives if it is thought.
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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There is no such thing as a Secret of Life. The aim in life, if there is one, is that of seeking temptation. There aren't enough: I sometimes pass a whole day finding no temptation whatsoever. It is a very sad thing, it makes one fear for the future.
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It is a lot harder to talk of something than actually doing it. In today's life this is naturally obvious. Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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