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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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