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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

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