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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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