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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
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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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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
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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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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
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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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