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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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