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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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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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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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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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