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Music is the perfect type of art.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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