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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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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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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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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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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
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