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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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