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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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