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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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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 wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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Art only begins where Imitation ends.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only faith, but on one side only devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is equally bad.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
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