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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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Art never expresses anything but itself.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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