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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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