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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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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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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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In fact, I am never wrong.
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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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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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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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