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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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