Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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America is not a country, it is a world.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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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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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.