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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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The best revenge is to live well.

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

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