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Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who ...more

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Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and ...more

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

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Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

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JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many dir...more

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, ...more

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mour...more

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Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them...more

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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

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As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only t...more

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because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.