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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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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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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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