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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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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 never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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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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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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