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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Every woman is wrong until she cries.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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