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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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