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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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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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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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