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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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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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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

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