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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
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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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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Most people are other people.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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