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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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