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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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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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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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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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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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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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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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