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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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