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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.
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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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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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