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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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