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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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The Americans are the best politically educated people in the world. It is well worth one's while to go to a country which can teach us the beauty of the word FREEDOM and the value of the thing LIBERTY.

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San Francisco is a really beautiful city. China Town, peopled by Chinese labourers, is the most artistic town I have ever come across. The people — strange, melancholy Orientals, whom many people would call common, and they are certainly very poor — have determined that they will have nothing about them that is not beautiful.

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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