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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

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People are either charming or tedious.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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The weather still continues charming.

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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