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

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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