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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Authority is quite degrading.
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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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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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