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You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spit...more

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee:The wine of life is spilt upon ...more

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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Deliver me from my disciples!

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She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

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Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

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Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the sec...more

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Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom i...more

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last...more

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curi...more

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been abl...more

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The Noblest form of Affection