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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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