The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by
Oscar Wilde
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by
Oscar Wilde
She was now forty years of age, childless, and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining young.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by
Oscar Wilde
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
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Lord Arthur Saviles Crime by
Oscar Wilde
He had lived the delicate and luxurious life of a young man of birth and fortune, a life exquisite in its freedom from sordid care, its beautiful boyish insouciance; and now for the first time he became conscious of the terrible mystery of Destiny, of the awful meaning of Doom.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by
Oscar Wilde
Were we no better than chessmen, moved by an unseen power, vessels the potter fashions at his fancy, for honour or for shame?
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by
Oscar Wilde