Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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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 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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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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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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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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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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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 one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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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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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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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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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!