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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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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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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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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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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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