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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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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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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

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