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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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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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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
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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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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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