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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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