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“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure.
I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.”
― De Profundis
I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.”
― De Profundis
“Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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