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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

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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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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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