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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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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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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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