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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
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