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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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 Repentance is quite out of date.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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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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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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