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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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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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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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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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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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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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