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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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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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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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America is one long expectoration.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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