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Wisdom comes with winters

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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

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The weather still continues charming.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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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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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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