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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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What the hell is an oboe?

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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