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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "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. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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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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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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