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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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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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One should absorb the color of life.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

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