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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member
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