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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The secret of life is in art.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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