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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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Life is too short to learn German

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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