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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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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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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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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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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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