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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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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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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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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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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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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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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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