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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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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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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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