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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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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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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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