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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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