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Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who ...more

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Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and ...more

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Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

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Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

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JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many dir...more

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, ...more

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mour...more

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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

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As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

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He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

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You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is ...more