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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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