LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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