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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always ...more

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All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthu...more

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the u...more

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life...more

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we a...more

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...more

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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not re...more

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When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonde...more