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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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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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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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History is only gossip.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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The heart was made to be broken.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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