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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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I'm too old to know everything

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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

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Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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