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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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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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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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All art is quite useless.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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