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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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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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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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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 well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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