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It was the passions about who...

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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And with tears of blood he cl...

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Mar...

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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I was disappointed in Niagara...

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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It's the spectator, and not l...

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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I must say... that I ruined m...

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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Out of the sea will rise Behe...

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

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He is some brainless, beautif...

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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Alone, and without any refere...

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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If the Socialism is Authorita...

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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The final mystery is oneself....

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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It is always a silly thing to...

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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My dear young lady, there was...

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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The Book of Life begins with ...

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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There is no such thing as a h...

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

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Bad artists always admire eac...

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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The liar at any rate recogniz...

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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Every single work of art is t...

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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I have grown tired of the art...

I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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Married men are horribly tedi...

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....