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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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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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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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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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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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