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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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