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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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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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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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Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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