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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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No art ever survived censorship no art ever will.
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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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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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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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