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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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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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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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I'm too old to know everything

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No gentleman ever has any money.

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