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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 sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artist...more

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For what is truth? In matters of relogion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters...more

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with onesel...more

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If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from th...more

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imita...more

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Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild...more

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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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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Anc...more

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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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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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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