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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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Don't use big words. They mean so little.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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