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Quotes by Dramatist
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
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"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."
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"Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me."
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"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?"
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"The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light."
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"Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?"
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"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides."
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"Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it."
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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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"Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy."
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