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Quotes by Dramatist
"I don't want to earn a living, I want to live."
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"The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
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"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography."
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"And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
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"O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely."
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"Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves."
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"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul."
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
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"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
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"It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free."
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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
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"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
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"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence."
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"True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,Which is as thin of substance as the air,And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north,And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,Turning his side to the dew-dropping south."
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"Inteligence lives longer than beauty."
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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"The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude."
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"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
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"Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss."
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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
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"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June" . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
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"From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power."
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"The problem with communication is the illusion that is has been accomplished."
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"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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