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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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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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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

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