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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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The secret of life is in art.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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