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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
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Art only begins where Imitation ends.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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