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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.
Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognizance … It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

You forget that a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.