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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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