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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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