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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Every woman is a rebel.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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