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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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