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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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

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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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