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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Bad artists always admire each others work.
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
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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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