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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
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Art should never be popular.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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I don't like Switzerland it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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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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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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The secret of life is in art.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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