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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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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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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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