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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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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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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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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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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. It seems to me that we never do anything else, murmered Dorian.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
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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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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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