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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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