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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

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