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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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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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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
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