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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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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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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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