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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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Yes poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
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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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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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