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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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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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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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