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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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