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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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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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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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