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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

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