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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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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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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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