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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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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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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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