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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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I wrote when I did not know life now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written life can only be lived.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Life is too short to learn German
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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