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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Time is a waste of money.

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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