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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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