I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
("The Importance of Being Earnest")
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon we rage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us.
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