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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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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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