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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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