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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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No gentleman ever has any money.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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