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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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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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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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