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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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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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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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