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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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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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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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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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Wisdom comes with winters
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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