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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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 worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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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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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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All art is quite useless.
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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