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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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 man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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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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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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