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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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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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