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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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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. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

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