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

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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