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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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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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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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