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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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