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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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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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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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