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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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Any place that we love becomes our world.

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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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