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Ordinary people waited till li...

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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Conscience and cowardice are r...

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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You like every one; that is to...

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, ...

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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It is a sad thing to think of,...

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, wi

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Man is many things, but he is ...

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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You can hardly imagine that I ...

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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To be born, or at any rate bre...

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Behind every exquisite thing t...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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We women, as some one says, lo...

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...

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There was so much in you that ...

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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We have quite the same ideas. ...

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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I have found that all ugly thi...

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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Bad art is a great deal worse ...

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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No artist has ethical sympathi...

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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Though of all poses a moral po...

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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I forgot that every little act...

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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The job of the critic is to re...

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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I can't stand people that do n...

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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To have friends, you know, one...

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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