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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
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To live in this world is a rare thing most people just exist.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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