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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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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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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

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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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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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