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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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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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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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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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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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A mutual misunderstanding.
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