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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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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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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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