"It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves."
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"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite."
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"It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun."
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"The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."
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"To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life."
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"The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also."
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"Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible."
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"That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time."
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"Life is a great disappointment."
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"It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them."
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"Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform."
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"This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that."
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"The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering."
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"Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!"
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"America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself."
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"After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations."
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"I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead."
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"I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram."
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"The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them."
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"Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body."
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