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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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Live the wonderful life that is in you.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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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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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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Be yourself everyone else is taken.
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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