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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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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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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
Oscar Wilde
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
Oscar Wilde
