"Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train."
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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"Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important."
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"Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain."
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"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."
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"I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
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"At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been."
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"My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
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"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
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"There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie."
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"Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?"
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"The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery"
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"It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next."
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"The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself."
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"Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners."
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"If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty"
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"There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be."
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"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."
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"He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven."
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"The job of the critic is to report to us his moods."
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