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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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