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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 ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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