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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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