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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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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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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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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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