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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Divorces are made in heaven.

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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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