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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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