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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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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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