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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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