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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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 sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
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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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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself
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To define is to limit.
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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
Oscar Wilde
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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