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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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