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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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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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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me
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Be yourself everyone else is taken.
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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
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