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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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I walk the world in wonder.

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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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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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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