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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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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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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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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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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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