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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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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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The secret of life is in art.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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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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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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