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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only faith, but on one side only devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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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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I walk the world in wonder.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married by then it was too late'
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Every woman is a rebel.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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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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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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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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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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