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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
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To live in this world is a rare thing most people just exist.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance
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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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