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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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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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To define is to limit.

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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

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It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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