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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
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One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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