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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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History is merely gossip

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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