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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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