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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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