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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
[Art]

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
[Art]

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
[Life]

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
[Art]

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
[Simplicity]

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.
[Instincts]

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.


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