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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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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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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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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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Irony is wasted on the stupid
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
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