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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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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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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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