"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
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"Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art"
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"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
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"I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you."
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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, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion."
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"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."
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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things."
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"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
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"but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself"
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"A burnt child loves the fire."
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"Irony is wasted on the stupid"
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"That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance."
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"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
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"When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand."
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"If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times"
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"The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
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"What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul."
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"It was only in the theatre that I lived"
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"I analyzed you, though you did not adore me."
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