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"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."
"Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken."
"I don't want to earn my living, I want to live."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"The moon in her chariot of pearl"
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
"Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened."
"You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
"All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life."
"The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
"They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins."
"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion."