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All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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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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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Oscar Wilde
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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