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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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In fact, I am never wrong.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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