"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
-Oscar Wilde
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
-Oscar Wilde
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
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-Bill Berry
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-Tony Garza
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"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
-Fawn M. Brodie
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"The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."
-Galina Vishnevskaya
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"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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