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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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