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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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Music is the perfect type of art.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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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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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.
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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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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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