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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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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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