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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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