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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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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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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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