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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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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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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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