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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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One should always be in love.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
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