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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
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Let me say to you that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult, and it most intellectual.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
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Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs Allonby: It ends with Revelations.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious : both are disappointed.
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Misfortunes one can endure – they come form side, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults – oh! here is the sting of life.
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Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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