"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
-Oscar Wilde
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"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.“
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
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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."
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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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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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