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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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Life is a great disappointment.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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