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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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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. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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