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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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It is what we fear that happens to us.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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