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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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To live in this world is a rare thing most people just exist.
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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The unread is always better than the unreadable.
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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