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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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People are either charming or tedious.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

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

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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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 fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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