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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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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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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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