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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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All women are rebels.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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