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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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To define is to limit.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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