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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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