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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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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
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To define is to limit.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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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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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
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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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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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