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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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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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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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

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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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