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

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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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