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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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