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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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I never read a book I must review it prejudices you so.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
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