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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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I am happy in my prison of passion

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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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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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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