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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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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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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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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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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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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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