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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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