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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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