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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

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

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The only sin is stupidity.

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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