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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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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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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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