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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
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The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
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Misfortunes one can endure - they come from the outside; they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah, there is the sting of life.
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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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Paradox though it may seem—and paradoxes are always dangerous things—it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Lord Illingworth:
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby:
It ends with Revelations.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
October 16, 1854
Died:
November 30, 1900
(aged 46)
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