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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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To live in this world is a rare thing most people just exist.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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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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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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