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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
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 final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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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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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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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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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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