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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

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To define is to limit.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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