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" There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "
Oscar Wilde
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" If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. "
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" There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. "
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" Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. "
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" The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. "
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" I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. "
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" I am not young enough to know everything. "
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" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "
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" A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. "
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" I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. "
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" While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. "
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" One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. "
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" The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle. "
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" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "
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" Women are made to be loved, not understood. "
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" Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. "
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