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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
Oscar Wilde
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
Oscar Wilde
