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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Art should never be popular.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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