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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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