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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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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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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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Music is the perfect type of art.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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