"The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk."
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"A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art."
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"So lets knock a couple back and make some noise"
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"We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets."
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"The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind."
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"Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you."
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"Everyone should keep someone else's diary."
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"She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy."
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"He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best."
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"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
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"I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to."
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"One should absorb the color of life."
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"My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon."
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"And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn."
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"Conscience makes egotists of us all."
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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 enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished."
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"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
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"The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived."
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"The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing."
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