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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is equally bad.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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