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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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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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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

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