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Quotes by Dramatist
"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."
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"The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape."
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those conditions to realise some form of beautiful and intellectual life. But it is almost incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance."
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"A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself."
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"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."
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"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."
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"Il y a les sachants et les savants : c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas ; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique."
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"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
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"Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
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"Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error."
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"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
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"Even things that are true can be proved."
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"Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them."
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"There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."
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"QUINCEFrancis Flute, the bellows-mender.FLUTEHere, Peter Quince.QUINCEFlute, you must take Thisby on you.FLUTEWhat is Thisby? a wandering knight?QUINCEIt is the lady that Pyramus must love.FLUTENay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."
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"A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older."
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"Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul."
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"It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free."
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