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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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The secret of life is in art.
Oscar Wilde
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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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
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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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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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