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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthu...more

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we a...more

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...more

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.