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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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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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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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