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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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