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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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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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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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I walk the world in wonder.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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