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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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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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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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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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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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