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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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