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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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