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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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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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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.
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Life is too short to learn German
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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