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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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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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No art ever survived censorship no art ever will.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.
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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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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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