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" There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. "
Oscar Wilde
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" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "
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" When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. "
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" Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. "
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" Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. "
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" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "
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" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "
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" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "
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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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" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "
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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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" If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. "
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