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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

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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.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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