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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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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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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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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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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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