Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.