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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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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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No art ever survived censorship no art ever will.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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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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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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Most people are other people.
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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