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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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