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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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