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Wisdom comes with winters

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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