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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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

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One should absorb the color of life.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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