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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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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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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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