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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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