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I expect I shall have to die ...

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care fo...

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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We have been able to have fin...

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

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The ugly and stupid have the ...

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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The youth of America is their...

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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Whenever one has anything unp...

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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From the point of view of lit...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Society, civilized society at...

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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one pale woman all alone, The...

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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Poor? What does that matter? ...

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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Your machinery is beautiful. ...

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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I put my talent in my work, I...

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow l...

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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I threw the pearl of my soul ...

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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The wild Bee reels from bough...

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
Now in a lily cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
In his wandering.

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To stake all one's life on a ...

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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Alas! it is a fearful thing T...

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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Don't tell me that you have e...

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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The proper basis for marriage...

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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There is more to be said for ...

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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