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The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Oscar Wilde
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
Oscar Wilde -
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
Oscar Wilde
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
Oscar Wilde -
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde -
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde -
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
Oscar Wilde -
Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
Oscar Wilde -
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
Oscar Wilde -
What you read when you don't have to...
Oscar Wilde -
I'm too old to know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde -
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
Oscar Wilde
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde