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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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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
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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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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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Be yourself everyone else is taken.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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The critic has to educate the public the artist has to educate the critic.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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