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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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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

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

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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