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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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America is one long expectoration.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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