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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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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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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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