"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple."

Bertolucci, Bernardo on hollywood   

"New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it."

Simon, Neil on life   

"If you're not in New York, you're camping out."

Dewey, Thomas E. on life   

"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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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."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."

Wilde, Oscar on ethics
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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