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

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure perhaps I should check it.
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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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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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In fact, I am never wrong.
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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