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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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