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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
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I wrote when I did not know life now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written life can only be lived.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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