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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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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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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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