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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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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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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
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