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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
Oscar Wilde
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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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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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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