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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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