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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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 body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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