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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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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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Even things that are true can be proved.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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