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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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