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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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The heart was made to be broken.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what ...more

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[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...more

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

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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 h...more

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...more

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.