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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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