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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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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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I have a simple taste, only the best.
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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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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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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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