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The secret of life is in art.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Who, being loved, is poor?
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Writing bores me so.
All women are rebels.
Love is easily killed.
To define is to limit.
Outcasts always mourn.
Every woman is a rebel.
History is only gossip.
Genius is born-not paid
History is merely gossip
All art is quite useless.
Time is a waste of money.
Sphinxes without secrets.
Wisdom comes with winters
What the hell is an oboe?
Fantastic shadows of birds
The sky was pure opal now.
A mutual misunderstanding.
In fact, I am never wrong.
The only sin is stupidity.
Prism! Where is that baby?
I walk the world in wonder.
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
Everything popular is wrong.
A kiss may ruin a human life
Divorces are made in heaven.
Art should never be popular.
Most people are other people.
Authority is quite degrading.
The final mystery is oneself.