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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
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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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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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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Most people are other people.
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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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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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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