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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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 Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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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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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
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Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
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