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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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The secret of life is in art.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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