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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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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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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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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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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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