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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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Hearts Live By Being Wounded
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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art
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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
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