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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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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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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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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 body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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