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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of 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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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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