"Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant."
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"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
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"The supreme vice is shallowness."
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"Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers."
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"Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
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"The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand."
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"Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd."
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"The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort."
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"The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs."
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"No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will."
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"The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it."
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"The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations."
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"In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped."
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"Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess."
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"Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!"
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"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty."
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"Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share."
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"A gentleman never offends unintentionally"
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"What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know."
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