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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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