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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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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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