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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Dublin city
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.
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