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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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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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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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

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