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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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