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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
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I don't like Switzerland it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
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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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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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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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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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