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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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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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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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