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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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