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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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In fact, I am never wrong.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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