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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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All art is quite useless.
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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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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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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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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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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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