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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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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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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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History is only gossip.

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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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