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" The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. "
Oscar Wilde
Themselves
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" It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. "
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" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "
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" There is no sin except stupidity. "
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" There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. "
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" You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. "
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" Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. "
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" Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. "
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" Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "
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" I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. "
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Children
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" If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. "
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My Life
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" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. "
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" The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. "
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Shame
Show
" The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. "
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Divided
World
" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "
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Live
Good
" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "
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Art
Work
Unique
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" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "
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Looks
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" It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. "
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Mirrors
Life
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