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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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

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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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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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