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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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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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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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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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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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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.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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