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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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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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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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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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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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