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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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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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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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