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

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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