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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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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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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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