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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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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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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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