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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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