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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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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 beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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