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Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it it is what we become through it.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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